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japple

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14. Oh my! Avebury, that is a great story and a wonderful memory for you!

Reply to avebury (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 07:32 PM

Oct 2019

Thanks so much for sharing with us.

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A real quote from a real Republican Senator. You might want to sit down first..... [View all] DFW Oct 2019 OP

2016 - 2019 and they are at it again in the open . . . Iliyah Oct 2019 #1

With Obama, it was them being "proud of their ignorance" DFW Oct 2019 #6

Sadly, this thought is largely dead, dormant, or otherwise mute. How far we have fallen back. Evolve Dammit Oct 2019 #2

I fear you are correct DFW Oct 2019 #4

Never thought anything like this was possible. But it has been unfolding since '16 and the fervor Evolve Dammit Oct 2019 #10

Actually it's been unfolding since Reagan mdbl Oct 2019 #12

I know it's been unfolding since Reagan; now it is culminating. Evolve Dammit Oct 2019 #15

Longer than that actually it's just cstanleytech Oct 2019 #29

I knew there was a catch. dchill Oct 2019 #3

Oh, yeah DFW Oct 2019 #5

Little known fact about Margaret Chase Smith avebury Oct 2019 #7

Wow. Thanks for this info. Duppers Oct 2019 #13

Oh my! Avebury, that is a great story and a wonderful memory for you! japple Oct 2019 #14

I saw her often for a while, but was working on the "other" side of the aisle. DFW Oct 2019 #22

Due to his job, my father had to work avebury Oct 2019 #24

Now there's a coincidence. Exactly the same story with my father! DFW Oct 2019 #28

She was my grandmother's high school basketball coach jpak Oct 2019 #26

I lived in Maine 2naSalit Oct 2019 #8

No wonder DFW Oct 2019 #30

Yup. 2naSalit Oct 2019 #31

My sister-in-law ran up against the same walls in her native country DFW Oct 2019 #33

Read this in the Times last night... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #9

"...- again confronting a crisis of conscience..." ??? calimary Oct 2019 #18

We're looking at you Susan Collins of Maine.... TeamPooka Oct 2019 #11

To have a crisis of conscience DFW Oct 2019 #23

She barely has enough braincells to keep a heartbeat RainCaster Oct 2019 #27

That's the truth! ...nt 2naSalit Oct 2019 #32

Smith was the commencement speaker at my college graduation. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2019 #16

this is now the party of limbaugh and when democrats figure that out this bunch won't have certainot Oct 2019 #17

That was then... Iggo Oct 2019 #19

There were giants in the earth in those days. soldierant Oct 2019 #20

They don't make Republicans like they used to IronLionZion Oct 2019 #21

K&R ck4829 Oct 2019 #25